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Corporate Responsibility

Our Stakeholders

The long-term success of our bank depends on our ability to gain and maintain the trust of our stakeholders.

Through our role as a global financial services provider, we play an important part in the economy and society. As a result, we are sometimes confronted with very different demands and expectations. We cultivate a constructive dialogue with all our stakeholders by attending or hosting events and engaging in discussions in order to identify their needs and interests and to jointly develop solutions to current challenges wherever possible.

Our Stakeholder Groups

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We also engage in dialogue with national and international business associations, for example:

  • Institute of International Finance: The IIF is the most important international association representing the interests of the banking industry. Its members are currently working on proposals to tackle the financial crisis.
  • European Financial Services Roundtable: This advisory body was founded in 2001 by the major banks and insurers in the EU and other European countries to create a unified European financial market.
  • European Banking Federation: This group, based in Brussels, represents the interests of around 5,000 European private banks.
  • Swiss Bankers Association: This central organization works to preserve and optimize the national and international framework for the financial industry in Switzerland.
  • International Chamber of Commerce: This organization promotes trade worldwide.
  • Business and Industry Advisory Committee: This committee represents the interests of employers' organizations from OECD countries at the OECD.
  • economiesuisse: This umbrella organization promotes the interests of Swiss business in the political process and works to achieve the best possible conditions for business.
  • Global Financial Markets Association: This organization was established to join together the common interests of financial institutions around the world in response to the increasingly globally interconnected nature of financial market regulation.
  • Swiss Association of Employers: This overarching employer organization represents the interests of employers across all industries and regions vis-à-vis the public, politicians, the authorities and administration, and other public bodies.
  • WEF: The forum provides a platform for leading economics experts, politicians, academics and journalists from around the globe to come together to debate the most pressing issues facing the world.

In 2011, we once again actively participated in discussions with various global, national and regional industry organizations about current issues, such as the architecture of the international financial system,  in an effort to develop sustainable solutions to preserve and strengthen its stability.

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